By Martin A. Strosberg, PhD – Professor Emeritus, the Clarkson – Mount Sinai Bioethics Program In March and April of 2020, all eyes were on New York City, as they were for the cholera epidemics of the 19th century and… Read More
Can Suicide Ever Be Rational?
By Al O. Giwa, LLB, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Dr. Giwa is completing his last year of the Bioethics MS at Clarkson on the Clinical Ethics track.… Read More
Giving a Tough Diagnosis
by Sara Wolfson DNP APRN GNP-BC Department of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care Certificate in Clinical Ethics Yesterday, I sat down with a 73 year-old woman and her family to break the news that she had been diagnosed with mild… Read More
An End in and of Themselves
By Hannah Krystal Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, class of 2021 B.A. Literature, Yale University Ms. Krystal is a studying for a Master of Science in Bioethics in the Clinical track During anatomy laboratory today, I saw my… Read More
E-H-ARRGH: The Frustrating Costs and Benefits of the Electronic Health Record
By Jami Starr, MD Dr. Starr will complete her graduate certificate in Health Policy & Law in spring 2017. The concept of electronic medical recordkeeping was first introduced in the late 1960’s but it did not really become established until… Read More
(Non)Free Will and Bioethics
By Bodnár János Kristóf, MA, PhD Dr. Kristóf will compete his Master of Science in Bioethics in the Research Ethics specialization in spring 2017. Philosophers, religious thinkers, and laymen alike have pondered on the notion of ‘the freedom of the… Read More
Horse-drawn miscarriage: a case study on culture, pregnancy, and overriding parental requests to limit treatments
By Jacob Dalke, MS-Bioethics Mr. Dahlke, clinical ethicist at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, is a 2012 graduate of The Bioethics Program. I have an interesting history with the Amish community. I was homeschooled for three years in grade school, while… Read More